Muslih Fares

Muslih Fares (14 June 1935-6 August 1982) was a spiritual leader of the terrorist group Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and masterminded many terrorist attacks against Israel.

Biography
Muslih Fares was born on 14 June 1935 in Isdud, Mandatory Palestine, United Kingdom (present-day Ashdod, Israel) to a Sunni Muslim family. Fares' father Rasuluddin Fares was an imam from Isdud while his mother Fatima Hafez was from Ascalon (Ashkelon, Israel). Fares and his family were forced to relocate to Tarkumiya in the southern West Bank after the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, and Fares grew up with a hatred of Israel. Fares became an imam after studying at the University of Amman, and he preached at a mosque in Hebron, 7 miles southeast of his hometown of Tarkumiya.

In 1964, Fares was one of the founders of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), a socialist and anti-Zionist terrorist group led by Yasser Arafat. He served as a religious leader and convinced many young Palestinians to join the struggle against Israel. After the Six-Day War and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Fares fled to Madaba, Jordan. He was separated from Arafat for a while, and in 1974 he moved to Lebanon in the aftermath of a devastating Israeli raid on the country in Operation Wrath of God. Fares supervised several rocket attacks against Israel, and the Mossad made him a wanted man.

On 7 June 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon as the Lebanese Civil War escalated, with their goal being to stop the growth of PLO bases in southern Lebanon that were used to carry out attacks on their cities. Fares was one of the commanders of the PLO living in Lebanon's Bchamoun (Bechamoun) village near the capital of Beirut. Fares was killed by a 200-ton bomb dropped on a tall building there, where Fares met with a few aides. 17 PLO were killed along with 15 civilians.